Game Theory: Hard Mode is a LIE! (Sekiro Easy Mode Controversy)

I'm trash at games

I am legit the worst player in NA. Please report me when you see me in any online games, I should be banned from dragging my team down.

I'm good!
I think....

Perfect representation of me aswell

That's why I need easy mode 😂

Lol...

Have you ever seen "Easy mode is now selectable"?
That's an insult...

Death is a feature in Sekiro. If you're dying more than twice, you're doing it right

Dang I just realized that hk kind of copied that from demon souls. The more you know

and makes it harder when you die more

Oh... Now would you kindly give me 3 medkits from 1 station?

The thing about Bioshock is that it was praised for its story, not its FPS tech. As a FPS it's pretty mediocre with clumsy gunplay and a surplus of similarly working "special powers".

@@Vladimir_Kv ok? So?

I l a@@carolinacortesmartinez4305 no I’ll link

A man chooses

@@CrumpPumps happened to me too. If it happens so often then I must not be a bug

That's most likely a bug I've played than game more times than I actually wanted to (I had to entertain my brothers who didn't know how to play the game) all different difficulties and I found the game bugs out when you don't trigger specific events at the right times. Ive been able to outrun entire hordes of enemies coming in by simply moving faster than the game expects. It was a really effective strategy for conserving ammo when I was low. Cheap? Totally. Intended? Nah. It's on the same level of a speed runner hack. If the game doesn't do it again on your second play through after you've died a lot then you can be sure it was a glitch

Wow, I gave up the last of us after a few attempts on one part cause I'm super scared of zombies and I just couldn't go forward

@@CrumpPumps The second part is great as a standalone game, but if you love the story of the first do not play for that. I enjoyed the game, but hated the story. It was a visually beautiful game and the gameplay was great. Loved the mechanics, but the story overall sucked and lingered on certain characters too much.

now im just picturing the devs looking at you seeing you fail again and again and eing aww man lets give this guy a hand and just picked ya up and moved ya to after the clicker

Underrated comment alert 🚨

I somehow miss the old gt video formats

@Storm X_Boii did you even watch the video?

Enemy: kills player
DDA: I'm about to end this mans career

@@hairclipwatanabe2838 for all those stupid people who don't know what gt means it's obviously GTA dummies

Git Gud

There there ;)

At least its only a game. If these things applied to real life all your friends would zoom past you as you limp pathetically and then get eaten by a predator before you can kit maturity and have offspring.
But, life does not work that way.

Pffffffffftt
you think your bad at video games i need walkthroughs at least twice on legend of Zelda games

@@daquack1460 No Git better

The equivalent of “Nothing quite makes you learn like a grueling unforgiving fight”

there are some games that the fun comes from the difficulty.gems of war for instance.

In sekiro the last boss can two shot you no matter what

Took me 8 hours to beat Ishhin. Dang he was sooooo punishing.

@@IknowyourIPaddressnocap The only bosses that I remember getting two shotted by on NG and no demon bell are the Chained Ogres and Demon of Hatred.

Suddenly, every small time merc becomes Hawkeye

"oh yeah did you know I'm allergic to bullets?"
"Nathen why do we even have you"

Halo 2 legendary jackals:Welp

Then why not play real life?

So Drake can survive that but him and his brother can't take a small black woman 2v1. Seems legit.

Sovietwomble:its free real-estate.

Basically for honor too
Level one bots:You can block?
Level three bots:what happened that attack that is literally humanly impossible to parry that you got there? Ah right I parried it.
Level two bots:Level one or three at random

I want y’all to know that the AI designed in DOOM 4 is made in a way the the enemies stand out in the open or next to red barrels and essentially say hey look at me so that the player has an easier time prioritizing targets
They also sometimes with miss or not go on the aggressive when you’re vulnerable

@@Sh1ranu1 and then there are the people like me who are completely oblivious and clear a room except for a baron and then get killed by him cause i didn't see him until his foot/hoof was on my chest and my legs where gone.

"Sorry? I can't hear you over the sound of people subscribing."

Wow really? That's really cool!

@@lucasschander91 yep

Thats some bull right there

@@darreny.x608 that's true actually

Or a downplayed exemple in the first Super Mario Land. When you die, the screen you respawn in will be emptied of its enemies. Although it's more a case of death not being punishing.

Good point. Games are made for enjoyment after all

i am a souls veteran, bought playstation in 2019 just to play BB, and i got wrecked so hard by Orphan of Kos and Ludwig, their defeats were one of my best gaming memories, now Radahn is included in that list too.

@@jankriz9199 My one Ludwig fight took well over 30 tries on ng+3 with the burial blade
When I beat it, it was my favorite fight in ALL OF GAMING

@@its_saber1525 I’m on ng+ with the burial blade, currently stuck on Lawrence. For now I’m just doing new runs with different builds until I get gud

noice

*I SHOULD BE ABLE TO EXPERIENCE THE FULL GAME!!!*

*DAMN IT IS HARD TO JUMP OVER THIS BOX !*

@@mr.penguin4614 You can.. so long as you can do what it takes.

@@DePhoegonIsle Ikr?

You're*

Sporkinator and assume.

@@Sporkinator Oh know, the gremmar poliss fownd me.

It goes both ways my dude. Sucking a lot is still a measurement of how good you are. So you suck more than you think xd

Same

wow

cromancer 321 Thank you. I worked hard on the meme.

I think bloodborne also dynamically changed difficulty, there was a glitch that exposed it where if you played long enough the bosses would not use their whole arsenal of attacks

@@randomenvelope if I'm not mistaken that was due to a memory leak caused from consoles staying on too long.

@@randomenvelope nah that was another glitch fromsofts games would have been exposed by now i mean its litterally the “hardest games” if they got exposed for that they would have by now

Basically sums up some viewers of this channel

Nobody:
Nothing:
Internet : 😡🤬

Matpat:
Internet:
Matpat:
Internet: 😡🤬

i was the 500th thumbs up on this comment and i feel as though ive reached my peak potential.

Internet in a nutshell.

He do realy well if he can get 100 k soul :D

Still do though

Getting 100k souls? Teach me your ways

Roxas Gifford I’ve lost 100k pretty easily.. it hurt like physically because it was only 2 levels

I never thought of it like that
That's really cool

I was wondering that as well

"Dad, I love this video game character called Mario! He's super cool!"
"Yeah, I know, son. But did you know that years ago I made a theory about how Mario was a psychopath?"
_cries_
"Honey, we talked about this before. No ruining our kid's childhood!"

Sounds about right

@@tameronica "But I ruin everyone's else's, why not ours?"

I do stuff.o

Why can i hear him saying that?

@@ssseaweed3800
Because he said that at the start of the video?

@@coranbaker6401 No, like i can literally hear him screaming that while his face is getting beat up

Cyber Chroma true say🤣

A game fact lol

have u tried beating Sigrun from God of War 4 on god of war mode?

@@loiclomanga752 easy

@@LuciferMorningStar-xf5lo nah u never play 😏

@@samwekie9749 it is.

​@@samwekie9749 Sigrun is actually one of the easiest valkyries lmao
Her attacks are just all valkyries combined with some extra ones on a really easy arena. Runics that can stagger her, as much health regen as possible, high vitality and defense stats for hyper armor on certain attacks, and shock arrows to give that extra bit of stagger makes her easy af. I don't even think she summons anything to direct your attention away from her, while staying rather passive compared to other bosses. Anyone who says otherwise most likely went full runic/strength build and hoped that they won't have to parry any of her attacks, when the amount of telegraphing she does makes it incredibly satisfying to deny every bit of damage she wants to deal.

Yeah, I was like, "Dude, I think I'm the worst. You're saying I'm worse than the worst? That's harsh dude."

If my skill level was lower than I thought it was, my skill would be in the negatives

I'm already really bad at video games for someone who spends all his free time playing video games

Well...he is not WRONG. I take it as a compliment. :)

It's more of an encouragement really...

Might have been a gow reference too given the thumbnail

Well take it as critisims to not get gud but to git better

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EXACTLY

“Making their games easier” *cough cough* MIMIC TEAR +10 *cough cough*

@@tubb1 I believe elden ring was meant to have items to make the game easy

@@lilysmith5722 precisely. It’s supposed to make the game easier (in mimic tear’s case, as easy as one of those roblox cart ride games)

They also had to make many of them artificially difficult because there was a limit to how much content it could have(the length).

@@eliot1014 also because many of them were ports of arcade games, whose goal was to soak every penny from the player, so of course they were as merciless as possible, more deaths= more pennies spend on continues, and most games didn't bother to adjust the dificulty on the transition to home consoles

Yep that's what it was like. I was used to suffering.

Yup. That's why im glad I grew up on those games. Teaches you patience lol

Best system tbh at least for a gamer. I get why companies wanna allow more people to play, but I like the difficulty of NES games.

You're implying that every game journalist is a hypocrite when you should consider that they might be more than one person.

@@ActionGamerAaron That is true, but this comment is meant as a joke. I don't despise all game journalists, but some (a lot) just suck.

@@sneeznoodle SJW's in a Nutshell

Probably why all game with dynamic difficulty is rated well: "I am Soo good at this game without easy mode" except they already trigger the easy mode

@@ActionGamerAaron technically he's not, he never implies that they're the same reporter.

You can even turn it off

Honestly after ng 3 it's easy no matter what

demon bell is nothing compared to no kuro's charm, now THAT is true suffering

Let's not forget the calamity ring in Dark souls I and III (haven't played II so I don't know if it is there)

@@kamprouristheoharis8458 DaS2 had a hard mode covenant available the moment you left the tutorial area.

@@Gehrich_ think about it, there wouldn't we anyone who would not rage quit, and so no one would be able to finish the game. and so without being able to progress, to move forward, your mood will be the worst, so you will rage quit... it's a human psychology. but we all able to stedily move forward, make progress, kills bosses, and enjoy the game with dopamine rush after overcame the tall wall...

Blake Young I connect with this on a spiritual level

Halo showed me this, then the fighting games multiplayer, where you don´t get to touch the floor until your bar is on 0

well you forgot 1, game journalist level that's below beginner

COD WW2
Campaign on Hard completed: Ok time for multiplayer
Multiplayer: *Killed by op smg*
“Ok. I’ll get smg.
*Sniper, Lmg, Nade spam, Everything*
*Leaves game and never plays again*

not really, youll find a lot of noobs in multiplayer as well xD

N. R. Allen The willpower to go through that POS 3 times...Mad respect

@@nomblob5592 indeed. That kinda willpower outta be worth a Green Lantern ring or two.

N. R. Allen Pouring out a boi with the cold ones for Matt here!

Give that man an Infinity Stone.

I beat master chief collection alone on legendary

Re4 is a masterful example here

Every body does

So much. 😥

I need him

YES

me

And then high level multiplayer gamers/sekiro challenge runners *laugh in skilled*

11:50 Lead later crash games to be inclusive, *"Perfectly Balanced:"* games they became... THANOS CONFIRMED

But, "reality can be whatever I want"

*you’re

Easy mode is actually an insult to gamers.

I never even bothered lol, I'm self-aware enough to realise I'm not good enough to do it. Did manage to beat pantheon of gods normally though.

Dark Souls veterans: PREPARE TO DIE, BLASPHEMER!

@@jasonsorin1021 Even Dark Souls veterans couldn't make it through the Pantheons. It sparked its own mini-Sekiro outrage when it released because people couldn't git gud.

It took 5 months for me to beat the pantheon and another eight with all bindings. I’m so glad I did it though. Now I can go into silksong knowing I completed the hardest possible challenge

The GRE (grad school version of the SAT) uses this; they call it computer-adaptive testing. Unlike the SAT, all GRE tests are done using computers, in testing centers, at least in the US and Canada. Your final score is scaled depending on the difficulty of the questions you answered. So you can't game your way to a better score.

Nah man GCSE

@@kato093 wait WHAT? I DID THE SATS AND DIDNT KNOW THIS? WHDBERBRBEHDBDEVEVWBHNWN CKCNDNW3RONQB23EOSXCFM

@@justinfarischon7868 interesting info
How in the world do you know that lol

kato093 latinos for super easy

flip ya

+10 respect

And yet dark souls has none of these safe guards he points out to make his point ..... lol

You can make a point of anything if you cherry pick

@@randomcallum That's kind of the point. He says people are bad at games because when they come to something without these safeguards, like dark souls, they suck. It's not just about Sekiro.

Game: *sees 100% health*
Game: *makes it 200%*

Me: :3 tanks germ

Game: hey have this bazooka with insta kill
Player:wot?
Journalists: they aren’t making it more difficult just more dynamic

he didnt ask

@@drarkvoid741 I missed the part where someone asked for your input

@@szalyn8849 and who asked for yours?

@@drarkvoid741 and who asked for your reply?

Cool I got 1st

You're both liars

I've beaten king goomba on ds

Steam Whale you must think I'm well dumb. Proof or it didn't happen

i beat the whole of sky landers. on easy mode.

Matpat:Your not as good as you think you are
Me with 99 Masterballs and Trying to hide my gameshark:I don't know what your talking about im amazing

Not naming names... FINAL FANTASY 15....

Me with a 100% completion on the hardest difficulty in Doom: *”Wot?”*

Pixel Pudding hi-potions, get gud scrub

Me with 1000 deaths in Dark souls instead of 10.000:
*You were saying?*

I've grown old and soft, Matpat... Your hurtful words are toothless compared to the pain I feel knowing they're actually true

Get good skrub

There's a reason why I watch people play video games because I can't get 5 minutes in a game without dying

I feel ya bro I feel ya I feel that feeling with metal gear series

In wii sports resort oh boy matt was super hard

Pfft, I beat Matt in Swordplay, get on my level.

@@Megamean09
I did both.
I wish I was lying, but I did it, wasted so much time in my life and collapsed after it because of the physical strain.

stop lying

@@mr.bisness7617
If you meant me...
Nope, I did not lie.
I had cancer and was physically very weak. Already had beaten it, but like I said: the physical strain was too much.
I played Wii Sports for way too long and then it happend.
I played later on Wii Sports Resort with a friend (I didn't own Wii Motion Plus) and well that was the story.

Same.
Glock Saint is the only boss fight that i feel could match the hype of DMC3 2nd match vs Vergil, and the latter fight had the Nostalgia Boost ontop too.
GOATest of all GOAT fights eveerrrrrr.

I have bestowed thou with thine 69th like.

Then I shall him the 96th like

XD

Same

Same here once I got 87th in fortnite

Ashkore Whitemoon same. I suck at every game I play.

Yeah, worse than that

Naw. It's just ten times bigger than it currently needs to be!

Its- nevermind I'm dead

both

Both.

0%

For what it's worth, it's probably a bit of both.

i know right, way to put me down mat pat, whyyyy why couldnt you jsut let me believe i was good at games!!!!

just

You may be getting better, if you're doing better the dynamic adjustment will make the game slightly harder so, it's like a leveling system, when you do good at one level of play the game cranks it up a noch, no matter what people think, the system is fair and I personally prefer it even though I don't know where on the slider I am

Ever played a shooter against an aimbot? That's what all games would be like without adjustment to human suckage.

I'd take a tanky boss over a glass canon any day

I'm fine with glass cannons if there is enough of them to be challenging.

The Division elite enemies.

This is actually an odd point in design. Certainly there is a point of 'this is dragging on' in hp bars but, some mechanics become harder to do continually. A bigger hp bar can actually make a boss legitimately harder. Its an element of practice to know the difference

R u talking about sekiro

Did he basically tell us to git gud?

@@B10-HAZARD yes. yes he did. but that's a problem. To git gud you must die...a whole lot and can you do that with games that keep changing the setting with out telling you?
anyway I say easy mode or hard it dose not matter but no changing the game while playing (I think I might have noticed this going on in the games I play but just i was crazy).

when i keep retrying a fight in mortal kombat X story mode it makes the fight a bit easier for each retry

In God of War I noticed (in normal mode) that every stage or level I had to try a 100 times. Then all of a sudden I would just pass it. Also in uncharted they give hints if u been at the same part for a time. They even give the option to skip if u fail like 10 times.

I'm actually pretty sure this wasn't supposed to be the takeaway. 😂

That's an awesome perspective man. I hope the majority of gamers think like you.

I was just thinking the same thing. I really only play on medium, but after watching this video I think I might start The Witcher 3 on hard. Maybe.

That was also implemented into MW during the training segment at the opening

Pokemon Red and Blue. Your difficulty is determined by your first and second fight against Gary
Edit: I think it might actually be Pokemon Yellow now that someone mentioned it.

@@ramonalavigne5508 sauce

@@shandercarrero8077 Some guide book that I read in the 90's? I could be misremembering though.

Yeah nothing is as dumb as setting difficulty level BEFORE you even played or know buttons etc. Path of Neo was just stupid with its difficulty setting. When I chose hard it does not mean that I am good at the game, it means that I WANT to be good at the game.

True despite all that sekiro still have 'very positive' in steam.

its not even a debate among gamers

its because gamers who are not a target audience of from software games - simply don't buy them. but I HAVE personaly done my share of arguing with GAMERS who think that i'm wrong for playing on easy mode, ENJOYING playing on easy mode and NO purchasing/playing games outright, no matter how highly rated - if they don't offer me easy mode.

​@@Forgefaerie just out of curiosity, can you tell me why do you only play games on easy mode? And I mean no disrespect, people can play their games any way they want to. The problem is when people (mainly game journalists and not actual gamers in general) try to impose developers to make games the way they want to

​@@MrChukinorris because its how i enjoy them? I get plenty of frustrations in real life, the last thing i want from my entertainment that i do to relax - to add to my frustration. easy mode provides engagement without frustration. I enjoy narratives, specifically interactive narratives. very few things take you out of narrative quite like dying repeatedly over and over, or failing that one jump, etc. it kills the flow along with your character. and i know some people are good enough to be able to enjoy that flow on highest difficulties. i'm not one of those people. doesn't make me enjoy games any less or make my gaming experiences and preferences any less valid.
that said, what makes you think that journalists are not gamers? they just happen to write about games in addition to playing them and in theory they are supposed to represent interests of gamers. asking for games to be more accessible to more people is NOT inherently a bad thing. and unlike someone like me who doesn't have a voice that developers might actualy hear or listen to, journalists have a platform so they are using it.

@a normal everyday Spider It was a joke mate.

I have bad news for you..

@Old Glory I've never played Battlefield in my life, but I imagine I'd die immediately.

@Old Glory Haha, couldn't make it through without shitting on COD could you?
I'm not into first person shooters, so I don't think I'd like it.

@Old Glory It's just funny to me how whenever I'm talking to a COD fan it's always "it's great you gotta try it, blah blah blah. Battlefield sucks."
And my experience has been the same with Battlefield fans.
I'm not trying to be rude or anything, it's genuinely amusing.

Lizz Wellne you suck even more than you think

it was a title to beat a game now everyone can beat the game

not to mention the surprisingly deep DDA in RE5 that would make the enemies hard as nails with brand new mechanics if you cranked the difficulty up and did too well

I hate the DDA in REmake2, because I'm basically stuck playing in hardcore mode if I try playing normal. What's the point of having a dynamic difficulty, if it's just going to allow itself to peg out near the top of the scale anyway? I guess I could start jobbing, like the speedrunner that MatPat talks about did for RE4, to make the game easier.
Nah, I'd rather have a game that was made with challenge in mind, and builds interesting encounters around it.
Also, I don't recall the zombies every gaining a second lunge on the higher difficulty. They definitely get a longer lunge, with better tracking, but I hadn't ever seen a second lunge.

NOBODY EXPECTS A SECOND KNIFE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah normally DDA works against me, not for me. Kinda wish I could turn off that tryhard part of my brain.

I agree with you when it comes to other games, but when the game being difficult and having no option to lower the difficulty is part of a game or genre’s (soulsborne/souls-like games) very identity I would disagree.
If someone said to me that God of War(2018) shouldn’t have had the option to choose difficulty I would’ve looked at them like they were crazy, the game is a story game, it has no reason to be hard because that’s not the point of the game.
Fromsoftware games core is that they are hard games that do not try and hold your hand and they require/strongly suggest you try your best to improve to overcome adversity. If you really need help in most games you can summon another player to help you with a boss or area but that’s about it. Adding an easy mode to the games would be going against part of their identity.
Forgive me for the rant, I just started playing fromsoft games around 9 months ago and have fallen in love with them.

TL;DR Don't make it easier, present more options to take on situations.

@@Our_Remedy yeah pretty much

Dynamic difficulty is actually a good thing if implemented correctly

The Lean BusinessMan I think it depends on the game, and what kind of experience the devs are going for.

same but i do got dark souls 1 just got it i doubt i can beat it though

Ah I see you're man of culture as well

@@Stafarns You'll get through it mate. It's punishing but it's mostly fair. You'll die a lot, but you'll learn eventually.

Yeah same here I love stardew, and yeah I'm having a hard time playing dark souls... I'm definitely an easy mode gamer

Porn?

I bet the dude who beat dark souls with bananas as his controller would disagree.

Darksouls probably does not have it

Honestly I accidentally rung the demon bell and now don’t want to get rid of it because I ain’t a puss

The best way to get easy mode in Sekiro is to play on hardest mode (bell demon and no Kuro charm) then go back to the regular mode. Everything is easy and you feel like a god at the game

Hard mode is demon bell. Really hard mode is only using defelcts to build up posture damage.

I used the bell but I don’t feel a difference?

The next fromsoftware game will include difficulty modes ranging from very hard - extreme - insane - suicide - hell - impossible

...Unless if you train 7 hours a day in competitive multiplayer, then play campaign/single player and beast mode the hell outta those enemies.
Problem solved, I guess?

PhoeniX [LynX] One must truly be respected if they can complete Halo 2 Legendary deathless.

I turned on Spider-Man on the hardest difficulty setting and completed the first few missions after not having played it since alst year

Nice

Cerebral Cloud *cough* *cough* jackal snipers upon *cough* *cough* Outskirts Legendary Hell-Mode...

Everyone who plays Miyazaki games knows there are easy modes: magic, summoning, and items+ shields for beginners

Touhou fans have been doing this for ages

You're actually literally correct since in NG+ you get the option to return Kuro's charm which makes you take a bit of damage even while guarding, you only don't take damage if you perfect parry. I would call that normal difficulty and hard would be the Bell Demon on top of returning the charm since those 2 are the only things you can actively affect

If you play In Nightmare mode none of this crap is apply.

@@raulrojas9253 I did, it was a.... unpleasant experience.

Idk man Id prefer it if tHey didn’t do that as a general rule even tHo I’m rlly bad at most games

@@dabossman5650 the point of most story based games is to experience the story. If you are stuck dying to the same room of generic enemies for a week straight because the difficulty never adjusted and (let’s be honest) you’re too stubborn to change the difficulty to easy, you aren’t experiencing the story and it will destroy the careful pacing they wanted you to experience

@@MysticCouchPotato just get better while the enemies are instantly killing you, obviously smh.

I thought it was obvious lol

Yeah I've known it subconsciously but never really put any thought into it

I doesn't work in Witcher 3

At this rate is it a surprise when some games outright feel the need to help you or let you skip stuff you can't seem to beat. If they openly do stuff like that, then boosting certain things to be in your favor when you've died your millionth time to random grunt # 657 or big boss #2 without saying anything shouldn't be a surprise. Only masochists and KRplusrs really want to play games where trying to win takes years off your life and costs you like six controller and at least one TV.

When I saw my cousin playing fortnight as a level 8 player that's when I figured it out

@@lacytaylor1501 lol GTA V lets you skip mission segments if you keep dying. Rockstar just treats its players like children.

Fate
Now how can I get my comment loved by Game or Film Theory…

I'm gonna tell some friends about this. (They are gonna get mad)

I am in the same boat. I assumed it was happening and I want it to happen. There are times when I've died, and then won the next round and thought "I sincerely doubt I played any better this time."

I've personally just been surprised at victory for anything.

Clearly mat pat hasn't played halo 2 on legendary